Onion Chutney Chicken

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It's funny how you strike a chord with certain recipes and this is one such recipe. I happened to see this post on insta(Thanks Maria Goretti!) and couldn't wait to try it. It was something she had tweaked from her friend's recipe and sounded pretty interesting. I had to tweak it a little as well because the spice level seemed a bit too much for the kids. A chutney chicken!

All you need is:
Chicken bone-in- I used about 6 big pieces
Garlic-lots! I used about 15 big cloves(Told you it was a lot!) chopped fine
Ginger- About 1.5 inches chopped fine
Dried red chillies- 10 deseeded
Onion -2 big sliced
Curry leaves-a handful 
Coconut milk-I used powdered coconut milk mixed with about 1/2 a cup of fresh coconut scrappings
Sugar-2 tbsp (optional)
Salt
Ghee

Take enough ghee to cover the saucepan, heat it a bit and add curry leaves, garlic, ginger and red chillies. Once the aroma releases, add in the sliced onions and let it soften. once translucent, turn off the flame and let it cool down slightly. Remove the mix while letting the ghee stay in the pan and blend this with the coconut milk and scrapping mixture in the blender. Add water as needed and salt at this point as well.
To the ghee in the pan, add the chicken and sear both sides. Add more ghee if needed, I did not. Once the chicken seems semi-cooked, toss in the coconut onion mixture and cover the pan. Add water if necessary and let the chicken absorb the flavours. Add the sugar if needed. I did, to cut the spice and it worked really well. Once the sauce/chutney thickens, turn off flame and let it rest.

I had to really stop myself from adding coriander leaves to this one. I have begun to feel like my meals are incomplete without coriander leaves these days! While I served this with rice for lunch, I felt it would have paired better with appam, pathiri or neer dosa and that's exactly what we did for dinner with the leftover gravy for dinner. Had it with neer dosa and it was perfect! I loved how super simple the recipe was and how the kids did not complain about the spice. So there's one more recipe for my treasure trove if I ever end up making one. Till then the blog will have to do :)

Vive Valeque ❤️ 


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